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Heartbeats align during an Islamic ritual, new study finds
If group prayer, or walking barefoot over scalding coals, isn't really your thing, similar states can be achieved simply by snuggling with a pet you love
Breast cancer vaccine could be available in 8 years, says Mayo...
Coming soon - but some folks can't afford to wait.
Is NASA ignoring proof of Martian life from the 1970s?
There's life on Mars and it's already been detected and proven
Antibiotic resistance: Researchers have directly proven that bacteria can change shape...
Bacteria are smarter than researchers originally thought.
Vaping-related lung damage resembles mustard gas injuries
The myriad of vaping products, both legal and illegal, makes it difficult to know what's going on. Considering that doctors have been recommending e-cigs as a way to quit smoking, they need to get a handle on this quickly.
China grew a plant on the moon — it sprouted two...
Plants innnn spaaaaaaace! (If anyone knows how to say that in Mandarin, please get in touch, we think it would be awesome!)
Organizers: Operation Ocean Cleanup is finally working
The garbage patch in the Pacific this was created to deal with is enormous and getting larger.
Plastic tea bags release billions of microplastic particles into every cup
Lots of Fans are Tea Afficianados...time to check out your brand's bags.
The future of the mind: Exploring machine consciousness
What does it mean to be "conscious"? If we don't know, how can we tell if AIs are?
We may have to abandon concrete to fight climate change, architectural...
Concret may have to go....can anyone say "architectural coral"?
Watch: Octopus changes colors while (possibly) dreaming
Octo-goodness from Nature! Do octopi dream? If so, their color changes may reveal what they are dreaming about. Screw the "squids in space", we want octopusses in space.
California researchers develop drug cocktail that reversesaging — results ‘remarkably promising’
...and how much will Big Pharma be charging for this cocktail?
Strange magnetic pulses that happen at midnight detected onMars
Mars' magnetic field pulses during the witching hour
How can cognitive science inform the future of education?
Improving education with techniques based on how the brain actually works
Physicists invent a new way to search for dark matter using...
Scientists are using a previously theoretical device to hunt for a theoretical particle that may confirm the existence of theoretical dark matter
Truth vs Reality: How we evolved to survive, not to see...
Persistence of Vision; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; our brain interprets our senses, it doesn't show us the 'real' world
New CRISPR tools can cut, splice whole chromosomes
CRISPR advances in capabilities and the time for Kahn Noonian Singh draws ever nigh
One of a proton’s biggest mysteries isn’t a mystery afterall
Incorrect measurements can really screw with quantum physics
Swedish scientist advocates eating humans to combat climatechange
We want a ruling from the dieticians: good or bad for cholesterol?
Detecting patients’ pain levels via their brain signals
On a scale of 1 to ten, with ten being the worst pain imaginable....
Amazon fires are destructive, but they aren’t depleting Earth’s oxygen supply
Oxygen is kind of important for life on this planet: learn about its cycle
Dead bodies keep moving for more than a year after death,...
Corpses keep moving after death....zombies, anyone?
Hurricane Dorian: Why are more extreme stormsstalling?
Severe hurricanes are not only becoming stronger and more common, but many are also moving more slowly and even stalling
Sea snail goo could help prevent colon cancer, study shows
Yet anothe reason to preserve our environment
Many vegetative patients are actually ‘covertly conscious’
Imagine being trapped in such a state...horrific. Studying this could lead to better therapies.
The supervolcano that can wipe out the U.S. and kill billions...
Supervolcanoes, including the one in Yellowstone, are the existential threat to humanity we've all been ignoring
Plants have awareness and intelligence, arguescientists
Anyone questioning whether plants have intelligence has never seen or read Day of the Triffids
